MANAGING MARGINS: OVERDESIGN in HOSPITAL BUILDING SERVICES

D. A. Jones; C. Eckert; P. Garthwaite

doi:10.1017/dsd.2020.151

MANAGING MARGINS: OVERDESIGN in HOSPITAL BUILDING SERVICES

D. A. Jones
, C. Eckert
, P. Garthwaite

The Open University

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Abstract

The capacity of building services in many hospitals exceeds the requirements by significant amounts. Oversizing of building services has a direct impact on building efficiency and operational costs, ultimately impacting upon patient care, by diverting much needed funding. A key factor leading to the oversizing is the excessive and uncoordinated application of design margins across various project stages. Based on a hospital case study, this paper analyses the reasons for the overdesign of a replacement cooling system and raises the importance of managing margins activity to avoid overdesign.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	215-224
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference
Volume	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/dsd.2020.151
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	16th International Design Conference, DESIGN 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 26 Oct 2020 → 29 Oct 2020

Keywords

decision making
design process
energy efficiency
overdesign

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